Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-07-26
Various Items.

A new military company, to be
/ called the IS Loudoun Guards, has
been organized in Leesburg, with W..
Athey as captain.
John Hoverstone. brakeman on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, was
struck by the pilot and thrown under
an engine at Mines, Va, on Friday
week, and instantly killed.
The Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad company have given notice
to their employees that they must
strictly abstain from all Intoxicating
drinks, whether on duty or not.
The President Of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad writes that
plans are being matured for the con-
struction of the Washington and
Ohio Railroad to the top OF the Blue
Ridge mountain. F@
Trade dollars arc redeemable till
September /, 1887. The act became
n law March 1st, and they were to be
redeemed for six months from that
date. It was an error to say that the
time expired in July.
The gross postal receipts for the
quarter ended June 80 at New York
were 81, 156,O61, an increase over
the corresponding quarter last year
of ; per cent. At Baltimore the re-
ccipts were S125, SAG.
Rev. r. II. Fleming, recently the
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
| Woodstock but now of one in Wash
ington, D. c., has accepted call from
the Second Presbyterian Church at
Lynchburg, and will enter upon its
duties in September.
a suffering public. will endorse the
following from the Baltimore 1meri-
can: "Thc cigarette young man is
very numcrously around this year,
and his limited intellect does not seem
to grasp the fact that other people
have rights rs well as himself"
The Leesburg WdShingtonidn says
iron ore has been discovered near
Clarl's Gap, in that county which
Prof. Monroe, of Philadelphia, pro-
nounces the best iron ore that ever
came to his laboratory, promising 4
yield of seventy per cent, and hav-
ing no sulphur combined with it.
The Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South have is
sued an address setting forth the ur-
gent need of more money for the for
eign missionary work. and suggesting
that the week beginning August Sth
be observed rs week of PRAYER for
the cause of missions and Of liberal
giving.
Lightning killed colorcd man OF
DR.. John Burrcll'5 farm, near Mill
wood, Clark county, Saturday week.
He remarked just before he WAS
killed that he would 90 to Ccdcrtush,
and he did not care if lightning did
strike him. He had just reached the
Bush, and was in the act of cutting n
shocstring with knife when the bolt
! descended.
The uagcrstown MaH says that
last week Mr.. Bceler and his wife. Of
rilghmanton, drove oyer to Villa 49,
port TO sell lot of hrooms Of their
own manufacture. Mr. Bccler is 80
years of age, Mrs. Beclcr is Sc, and
the horse they drove is 30 years old
and the carriage they went in was
built in 1S16-all so different from
the venecring family.
The new silver vault of the L. s.
Treasury at Washington is the larg-
est in the world and will hold
a hundred million silver dollars.
that are now actually surplus on
hand, over and above the wants OF
this country for circulating me-
dunn, will forever stand as a monn-
mcnt Of the power OF monopolists in
the last Congress, which refused 10
make any reduction in the oppressive
tariff under which we live.
Wheeling was visited by = terrible
storm last Tuesday night; the light
ming was unusually severe and the
wind blew down many shade trees.
The storm extended over consider
able extent of the country. At Graf
ton the lighting was the worst ever
known. Among other casualties,
the house of Mrs. Carr was strut k
and bed set on fire. Mrs. Carr
was killed instantly and her three
children badly burned by the electric
bolt.
At Winchester. on Monday of last
week, the grand jury indicted 4
prominent Israclitc merchant, y.
kOhn and his niece, Emma FranIIcl.
These parties were married Ivy Rev.
Rabbi Phillipson, of Har Sinai Tab
ernaclc, in Baltimore, on June 81,
1887, and returned to Winchester to
reside. The Virginia law fordids
the marriage in the State of parties
fthus connected, or having been mar
fried, from returning there rs man and
wife. The penalty is heavy fine
and Imprisonment.
1t is rumorcd that new scheme for
whisky-sclling is soon to be sprung in
Des Moines, Iowa, which is thought
by the originators to be law-proof.
They propose to work under the fed
cral law by buying their liquor put
up in half-pint, pint and quart TASKS
in foreign countries and then ship
ping them direct to Dcs Moines, where
they will be sold without breaking the
seal. They hope to gain immunity
from the State law under the rule that
imported goods when sold in the orig
inaI package are exempt, and are now
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